What do you mean, you can't post pictures? If you send your messages to the group via email, anyone can post pictures. Just open up your email program, type in what you want to type, and then look for something like "attach files", and browse your computer for the pictures you want to attach. Then attach them and send your message. Done! My camera takes pictures (with the setting I'm using) in the 1.5 megabyte range per picture, which is way too big, and they are double the size of an average computer screen. So if I know I'm going to send some pictures to anyone via email, I go and re-size them first. I just happen to have Photoshop, but any photo editor will do. I open the photo in Photoshop, go to the image menu, click image size, choose pixels or pixel size, and then type in 1024 for the larger of the two dimentions. I don't know if it was you that was asking about re-sizing or not. But that too is a simple task. Anyway, I hope this helps. As for your tree, I can't remember what Taxodium is. Barry
--- On Fri, 1/8/10, Tupelo <[email protected]> wrote: From: Tupelo <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] It really bothers me that I can't post pics---I wanted to get into a discussion about Taxodium distichum--the 90 footer To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, January 8, 2010, 1:18 PM that is in the neighbors yard is just too tall! I saw some 50 yr. olds in the parks in Pittsburgh that were about 50', this is more in the 86' range if my calcs are correct---yes if I could attach pics you could see the relations to the three story house in the background. I just love sitting on my deck looking at this tree.It is like--I sit 30 feet up slope of this and I still am not looking halfway up the tree. So I decided to take a measurement one day--WOW did I get a goofy measure or ? did it again, and came up with the same numbers. When we moved here, all my neighbors had no clue what this tree was. Me being me--said yup thats a Taxodium-- well whats that? ---- It's a biggun--likes a damp area--like the depression that it is living in, plenty of water, and it will grow like a weed.When you discover trees like this in an urban setting, and know that they have been around since the turn of the century you respect that. I do prefer Metasequoia for texture, and the "Black Forest" look of the trunk when it is of age, but these two trees are just sort of majestic. They stand way above the Norway spruce, and the older blue spruce stands in neighbors properties. Anyways, I guess I will just have to go down, and give the bigger one a hug--an have wifey take a pic of that for reference. Time to go play in the snow Jeffrey
